JAMB - Islamic Religious Knowledge Irk (2016 - No. 33)
What are the characteristics common to most Makkan Suwar?
They are short and poetic
They are long and rhythmic
They are easy and rhythmic
They are stylistic and summative
Paskaidrojums
: The Meccan surahs are, according to the timing and contextual background of supposed revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), the chronologically earlier chapters (suwar, singular sūrah) of the Qur'an that were revealed anytime before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina (Hijra). They are short and mostly poetic.